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For some architectures and setups, device removal can take longer than the default 5 seconds. This results in commands such as 'virsh setvcpus' to fire timeout messages even if the operation were successful in the guest, confusing the user. This patch sets a new 10 seconds unplug timeout for PPC64 guests. All other archs will keep the default 5 seconds timeout. Instead of putting 'if PPC64' conditionals inside qemu_hotplug.c to set the new timeout value, a new function called qemuDomainGetUnplugTimeout was added. The timeout value is then retrieved when needed, by passing the correspondent DomainDef object. This approach allows for different guest architectures to have distint unplug timeout intervals, regardless of the host architecture. This design also makes it easier to modify/enhance the unplug timeout logic in the future (allow for special timeouts for TCG domains, for example). A new mock file was created to work with qemuhotplugtest.c, given that the test timeout is significantly shorter than the actual timeout value in qemu_hotplug.c. The now unused 'qemuDomainRemoveDeviceWaitTime' global can't be simply erased from qemu_hotplug.c though. Next patch will remove it properly. Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands, however, we mandate to have the build directory different than the source directory. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: